| Acknowledgment | 8 |
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| Contents | 10 |
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| Chapter 1: Introduction | 14 |
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| The Swan River Colony | 15 |
| The Northwest | 16 |
| Rapid Change: The Methodological Problem | 17 |
| Think Globally, Dig Locally (Orser 1996:183) | 19 |
| Australian Historical Archaeology | 21 |
| Chapter 2: The Swan River Colony: Settlement of the Southwest | 23 |
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| The Swan River Colony: Settlement of the Southwest | 24 |
| Climate | 24 |
| Geology | 24 |
| Vegetation | 25 |
| Area History | 25 |
| Land Regulations | 31 |
| Agriculture | 32 |
| Social System | 33 |
| Architecture | 35 |
| Chapter 3: Port Systems and Trading Networks | 40 |
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| Port Systems and Trading Networks | 40 |
| Southwest Maritime Trading Patterns | 42 |
| Southwest Export Trading Patterns | 45 |
| Southwest Settlement Patterns | 49 |
| Southwest Urban Development | 53 |
| Site-Based Patterning | 60 |
| Delineating Southwest Patterns | 64 |
| Chapter 4: The North District: Settlement of the Northwest | 67 |
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| The North District: Settlement of the Northwest | 67 |
| Climate | 67 |
| Geology | 68 |
| Vegetation | 68 |
| Land Regulations | 69 |
| Area History | 71 |
| Colonists Expectations | 76 |
| Prior Knowledge | 76 |
| Gregory s Opinions | 77 |
| Initial Northwest Land Use | 78 |
| Withnell s Northwest Outfit | 79 |
| The Initial Northwest Social System | 82 |
| Chapter 5: Northwest Adaptations | 85 |
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| Northwest Adaptations | 85 |
| Trade | 86 |
| The Production System | 93 |
| Local Sustenance | 93 |
| Cash-Based Production System | 94 |
| Settlement System | 101 |
| Chapter 6: Town Site Archaeological Surveys | 110 |
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| Town Site Archaeological Surveys | 110 |
| Cossack Surveys | 110 |
| Broome Surveys | 115 |
| Old Onslow | 115 |
| Town Site Analysis | 117 |
| The Social System: Expression in the Built Environment | 117 |
| The Social System: Town Development and Layout | 125 |
| Cossack | 126 |
| 1863 1874: The Early Years | 126 |
| 1875 1881: The Growth of a Pearling Port | 138 |
| The Built Environment | 141 |
| 1882 1891: The Height of the Cossack Pearling Industry | 144 |
| Building Materials | 150 |
| 1892 1911: Towards the End | 151 |
| Broome | 155 |
| 1880s 1900: The Early Years | 155 |
| 1900 1930: The Golden Years of the Broome Pearling Industry | 157 |
| Resistance and Domination | 162 |
| Chapter 7: The Excavation of the Knight and Shenton Store Site | 166 |
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| Surface Features | 167 |
| Subsurface Features | 169 |
| Laboratory Procedures | 171 |
| Site Features | 171 |
| Artifacts | 172 |
| Mean Analysis | 173 |
| Identifying and Dating Artifacts | 175 |
| Analyzing Chronological Markers | 186 |
| Applying the Mean Calculations | 186 |
| Vertical Displacement | 187 |
| Intrusive Artifacts | 188 |
| Small Sample Size | 189 |
| Chronological Assemblages | 190 |
| Stratigraphic Testing of the Dated Assemblages | 193 |
| Chapter 8: Household Analysis: Site Layout and Building Design | 198 |
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| Household Analysis | 198 |
| 1870 1882 | 199 |
| Site Layout and Building Design | 199 |
| 1883 1895 | 208 |
| Site Layout and Building Design | 208 |
| 1896 1910 | 219 |
| Site Layout and Building Design | 219 |
| 1911 to Late 1920s: Late 1920s to 1941 | 228 |
| Conclusions | 235 |
| Building Design | 235 |
| Changing Use of Yard Spaces | 238 |
| Chapter 9: Household Analysis: Assemblage Analysis | 240 |
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| Assemblage Analysis | 240 |
| How Integrated with the British Trading Networks Were the Households of the Northwest? | 241 |
| Were There Differences in Surplus Accumulation Betweenthe Regional Groups of the Northwest? | 242 |
| How is Domination and Resistance Expressed in the Culture of Cossack Households? | 244 |
| Comparison to Early American Colonization | 244 |
| Comparison to Later American Colonization | 248 |
| Public and Private Display | 257 |
| Can the Effect of Early Regional Elite Resistance and Then the Collapse of That Resistance Be Traced in the Archaeological Re | 263 |
| Conclusions | 264 |
| References | 268 |
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| Index | 279 |